May 25, 201312 yr A-class minehunter (Turkey) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_class_minehunter_%28Turkey%29 "The A Class is a class of minehunter vessels in the Turkish Navy. In 1999, the German shipyards Lürssen and Abeking & Rasmussen were contracted to build six Frankenthal class ships for the Turkish Navy, a business worth US$630 million. While the first vessel was built in Germany, later ships were constructed by the Istanbul Naval Shipyard.[1] The Turkish Navy has become the second naval force in the world, after the German Navy, to utilize a non-magnetic steel hull in its minehunter vessels." --Wikipedia As before, I would make the case for including more minesweeper classes. Mine-hunting operations can be modeled with the Reach Station victory condition, although action will need to be built around protecting the mine-hunters from other threats rather than actually finding the mines as those are not modeled in H3/ANW. In addition, I imagine minesweepers can be used for other basic patrol/intelligence-gathering missions. Against a 600-ton warship with a 30mm cannon, your average criminal or terrorist is probably not going to worry too much whether the thing is a minesweeper or a patrol boat. ANW HUD-4 v1.11
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